A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-general, Volume 3Francis Wharton U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - International law |
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authority belonging blockade Brit Britain British Government capture cargo citizens civil claim coast colonies commerce commission condemnation Cong Congress consul contraband contraband of war convention cruisers Curaçoa declaration declaration of Paris dispatch duty enemy enemy's England entitled ernment execution fish fisheries flag force foreign France French guano high seas hostile ibid infra Inst instructions insurgents international law island jurisdiction law of nations letter letters of marque Lord Majesty's Government Marcy maritime ment merchant military minister Mosquito Indians naval negotiation neutral port Nicaragua officers opinion parties passports peace persons pirates present President principle prize court proclamation protection purpose question recognized regard reprisals respect rule sailing sea-letter seized seizure Senate sess Seward ship sovereign Spain Spanish statute stipulations supra territory tion trade treaty treaty of 1818 Treaty of Washington tribunal undersigned United violation voyage Wheaton
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Page 282 - I. 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient
Page 636 - foot or providing or preparing the means for any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from the territory or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions of either of the said belligerents. " And I do further declare and proclaim that by the nineteenth article of the treaty of amity and commerce which was
Page 279 - 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. "2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. "3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. "4. Blockades, in order to be binding must be effective; that is to say, maintained by forces really sufficient to prevent access to the coast of
Page 46 - the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the western and northern coast, of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Island«,
Page 292 - France ; Dip. Corr., 1861. • The United States adheres to the following principles: 1st. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 2d. Neutral goods, not contraband of war, are not liable to confiscation under enemy's flag.
Page 448 - than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed iu either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to
Page 637 - the enemy's flag. 4th. That blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy; and that, although the
Page 343 - In April, 1865, General Grant wrote to General Lee that he proposed to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, viz: " 1. That rolls of all the officers and men were to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer of the selection of the
Page 251 - treaty of peace of 1783, but another article (V) contained an agreement on the part of Congress to recommend to the legislatures of the respective States to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which had been confiscated, and even in cases where the property
Page 41 - ou that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but